Bab 108: Given Up.(Raw)
When they entered the crack in the dimensions they did not appear together as they thought. Kurayami ended up with Ares, Shin, Rebellion as they were bound to him. and Clarise with out the others in his group. He looked at the sky and saw it was pitch black and the air was full of death magic.
He spread his senses and found that this place was like it's own dimension at this point. Like after being sealed the entire realm ripped itself from the world. Of course he found the girls were spread apart with small groups.
Raynare ended up with Azazel and Artemis and she was in a type of desert, as for Esdeath she was in a swamp with Azrael and Lavinia. Of course they had frozen the swamp around them to keep them from entering the deadly water.
Akeno, ended up with Rossweissa, Jack, and Jannice. As they were the closest to Kurayami which was he planned to go meet up with them soon. Now the one he was most worried about was Natsume as she was not very strong.
When he looked for her he found something that worried him. He could not find her with his senses which worried him, so began to look for her.
As he looked for her Clarise looked around as she was still kind of unnerved about this place. She was dressed in her black dog themed armor and she took of her helmet looking around. When she saw Kurayami's eyes were moving super fast she realized something was wrong.
"Sir, something wrong?"
"I can't find Natsume."
Ares glanced back at him and shrugged.
"Shit, that is bad, lucky for you she is not useless. She has been training hard all for you recently."
Kurayami placed his sunglasses back on and he looked forward. Thounsands of undead zombies, skeletons, knights, and even some fused monstrosities. Each of them was in the ultimate class and some even higher.
What looked like the leaders were at the level of weak gods and just seeing that ignited the battle junkies. Ares leather jacket turned into a Greek style war armor and his sword appeared in his right hand.
"Well, let's find her. First kill as many of these things as we can. Should we find the spatial cracks and seal them."
Kurayami and Clarise looked at him a little shocked. When he noticed they were looking at him he got annoyed.
"Just because I am not Athena it does not mean I cannot think."
Kurayami decided to try to keep focused. Rebellion who was still with him came out of his arm and turned into his sword. Clarise put her helmet back on and grabbed the war axe on her back.
The three of them walked toward the massive hoard of undead that numbered in the thousands and charged forward. This was a lot of high grade souls and their weapons were hungering for souls.
While they slaughtered a hoard of undead on the outside Odin and Lugh were working hard to keep the dimension stable. What Odin and Lugh did not realize was that the other Celtic gods were planning on getting rid of Kurayami, Azrael and the heavy hitters of Grigori.
They began to feel threatened by them, but what they did not know was that while Ophis was not going on this trip it did not mean she was not watching. They were digging their own graves at this point, but they were still oblivious to this.
Back in the land of shadows Raynare, Azazel and Artemis looked around at the black sand they were standing on. She felt right at home in this death filled place.
"Vritra, what do you know about this place?"
Around them coiled Vritra as he flicked his snake like tongue.
"I remember now a little something about this place. When I was alive I heard a story that at one point this place was home to a warrior queen. At that time she herself was what was keeping this the dead at bay."
Azazel face palmed and he realized what he meant.
"Oh you mean Scathach. I met her once when I was young, but she must be dead. it's been thousand of years since then so this must be because she died. Back then she was trying to raise a warrior to kill her, but she never succeeded."
Artemis drew her bow and she got their attention.
"Well that is bad for us, but pay attention to the sands. Were not alone."
From the sands undead centipedes, mummies, scorpions and beetled emerged from the sand. Just like before most of them were at the ultimate class, but one in the back had the aura of a god.
It looked like a pharaoh and at it's command the dead rose from the sands and surged at them like starved beasts. Azazel popped his neck when he looked at it.
"Leave the pharaoh thing to me. Got to move these old bones before I loose my touch. Plus, what better way to test out my new and improved Sacred Gear."
He spread his 14 wings and pulled out Downfall Dragon spear before activating his balance breaker. A golden purple armor appeared around him and a two pronged spear of light appeared. Behind him Fafnir appeared as it gazed at the dead.
He fused with the armor and a aura of a dragon king emerged from Azazel proving he had perfected his craft. Now no one could say that Azazel's work was worse than God's which was saying a lot.
Raynare and Artemis looked at each other before they prepared to kill the dead. Vritra felt the urge to fight from his host and he felt this would be a good opportunity for him to recover more from his soul damage.
Raynare equipped her Subspecies balance breaker and Artemis unleashed her true might and when she drew her bow. When she fired her arrow turned into hundreds killing many of the undead.
Raynare and Vritra went all out and when she swung her scythe she ripped apart hundreds of the dead food soldiers all turning into food for her weapon. Similar massacre's occurred with their other groups as the dead were coming toward them, but they were just killing stragglers on the outside.
The real danger was at the center of where millions of the dead stronger than the ones the others were facing were trying to enter the spatial cracks. As for Natsume she appeared in the worst place in the center where the dead were trying to leave.
Lucky for her she was in a good hiding spot as she looked at the swarm of the dead. Griffon was keeping her aura sealed and avoided drawing attention to themselves.
She watched as the strongest undead she could see were throwing undead into the spatial cracks and the rest were keeping the cracks open. It was a race between Lugh and Odin and the undead, but the dead had more numbers.
Natsume wanted nothing more than for Kurayami to find her, but she realized that she was just going to drag him down. She got rid of her nervousness and was going to try to find a way to leave the center of the Land of Shadows.
Flying would do her no good as their were even skeleton and zombie dragons here. Not to mention that for their were many undead that could fly, fighting her way out would be idiotic.
As she was going to get up a hand covered her mouth which scared her. She was about to struggle, but a rune appeared on her forehead which knocked her out. With his master out of commission Griffon was sadly next.
When they were unconscious they were dragged away from the danger zone. Their kidnapper looked at them both and took them to safe place away from the huge hoard of the dead.
She waved her hand and they disappeared from the worst danger zone of the Land of Shadows. The reason Kurayami had not managed to find Natsume was because of the interference of the larger death, and shadow magic.
They reappeared in front of a cave with thousands of runes which kept the place hidden from the undead. She placed Natsume and Griffon down gently on a matt of fur.
She was the queen of The Land of Shadows and after it had been sealed for thousands of years she remained with her duty to slaughter the dead. However the more time went on the stronger the dead got and so did she.
Her former humanity now nothing more than memory and her divinity had grown with time. However she could not become a god for the simple reason that her mentality was not good enough.
A god had to have both the strength, divinity, and most importantly belief. She had two of the three, but as she craved death by the hand of a warrior she was still just at the point of becoming a god.
She grabbed her twin spears and woke up Natsume who shot awake looking around when she noticed her. Scathach spoke in a blunt town as she had not spoken to anyone in centuries.
"Why are you here?"
Griffon perched on her shoulder ready to attack as he was pissed about being defeated so easily. Natsume answered honestly as she felt this person was strong stronger than Raynare and Esdeath some of the strongest people she knew.
She had a similar aura to Azrael, but it was weaker by quite a bit. That was the result of her incomplete divine spark. She would have to complete it if she was to get stronger. Natsume answered as best she could.
"The Land of Shadows is cracking and the dead are escaping into the mortal world. We came her to cull the dead before they escaped, but who are you? Did you enter before us or something?"
Scathach shook her head and sighed.
"I have been here since the start. The dead will escape soon and I can no longer stop them."
Natsume looked at Scathach's battle worn face. She was not injured, but after being here so long she had lost her will to fight. Being here alone for centuries with nothing but the dead around was not a good outcome.
She could not even kill herself because of her curse. Maybe once the dead break out she could find someone to kill her as she was done. Natsume stood up and looked at her.
"Can you help me find my group? My fiancé is really strong and he may be able to get us out."
"If he is not here it means he got lucky to be sent to the outer edges of this realm. You got unlucky and are in the center or the death zone. If he comes here hope he is as strong as you think he is."
Scathach slumped on the ground as she sat against a wall. Her eyes were just as hollow as Kurayami's were before and Natsume could guess she did not have a lot of hope.
"Do you mind telling me about yourself. How long have you been alone?"
Scathach glanced at her and sighed.
"I would if I could. I don't even know when I first touched spear or how long I have been here. I cannot leave, and I cannot die. Now that the dead are leaving I just hope I can die when this place breaks or find someone who can."
Natsume felt the hopelessness in her words and tone and she wondered how long she truly was here.
"My fiancé had the same eyes you did before. He seemed to have given up on life and was just going through the motions. He changed after and now he is one of the strongest beings I know. Many fear his power and maybe he can grant you wish."
Scathach thought about it and looked at her spears. At this point they were bound to her as semi divine weapons.
"You think highly of him don't you?"
Natsume nodded.
"He is my future husband after all. I think it is too early to give up as you might be able to leave here."
"Not likely.
While they talked Kurayami and his small party got done with their hoard and he looked forward as more were moving toward them.
"Well let's meet up with Akeno and move toward the center. The strongest undead are there."
Ares pulled his arm out of a zombie and threw it at the approaching group of undead.
"Fine by me, this was barely a warm up. How about you Clarise?"
She ripped her boot from the chest of a undead and swung her axe to get rid of th guts on it.
"This is so much fun."
All of the groups planed to move toward the center as they all could feel the denser death magic in that area. They would meet up on the way and keep fighting the undead to reduce their numbers.
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